Hello Allie!
On Friday, October 22, 2004 at 1:11:00 AM you wrote:
> Even if digitally signed with a verifiable PGP/SMIME signature?
Yes. the German Ministry of the Interior is working on a centralised
and completely new electronic signature for years now; they don't
want the decentralised way PGP works. One of their goals is to have a
copy of the private key with the authorities. Of course business
and human rights spokesmen are heavily opposed to this.
> I'm not surprised that this would be the courts position on unsecured
> e-mail. The way to battle this problem wouldn't be to make it
> difficult for users to edit received mail. The way to battle it is
> through the use of PGP/SMIME.
As the German saying goes: "Du rennst bei mir offene Türen ein." ("You
are preaching to the converted.")
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